Career
- 2014-date Principal Investigator on Cambridge STFC High Energy Physics theory consolidated grant
- 2011-date Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
- 2022-2023 Scientific Associate, CERN (on sabbatical leave from Cambridge)
- 2009-2010 Reader, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
- 2004-2008 Lecturer, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
- 2004-2009 PPARC Advanced Fellow, University of Cambridge
- 2002-2004 Postdoctoral researcher, Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules Theorie
- 2000-2002 Fellow, TH Division, CERN
- 1998-2000 Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
- 1995-1998 Higher Scientific Officer, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Research
Ben is a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics High Energy Physics research group and The Cambridge Pheno Working Group based at the Cavendish Laboratory.
Ben is a particle phenomenologist and is primarily interested in interpreting data coming from the CERN experiments in terms of new particles and forces.
Lecturing
Part III (Master's course), lecture notes and accompanying youtube lectures:
Ph.D. Students
- Eetu Loisa: 2021-
- Hannah Banks: 2019-2023
- Maeve Madigan: 2018-2021
- Tom Cridge: 2014-2018
- Sophie Renner: 2012-2016
- Matt Dolan: 2007-2010
- Jordan Skittrall: 2006-2009
- Steve Kom: 2005-2008
Music: Professor Jammin
Selected External Activities
- 2019-date Author of The Review of Particle Physics
- 2018 Quantum Selves art exhibition, Burgh House and Hampstead Museum, London
- 2017 Consultant for Guerilla Science's Intergalactic Travel Bureau stage show
- 2013 TEDx talk, Budapest, Hungary
- 2012 Co-hosted CERN dinner at TEDGlobal event, Edinburgh
- 2005-2006 Scientific Secretary, CERN Council Strategy Group
Publications
7. Single sneutrino production at LEP2
– Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
(1998)
24,
439
5. Effect of R-parity violation upon unification predictions
– Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
(1998)
24,
433
4. Charge and colour breaking minima in the MSSM
– Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
(1998)
24,
430
The quasi-fixed Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
– Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
(1997)
415,
371
String unification, spaghetti diagrams and infra-red fixed points
– Nuclear Physics B
(1997)
507,
91
Yukawa textures from family symmetry and unification
– Physics Letters B
(1997)
407,
275
Yukawa textures in string unified models with SU(4)circle times O(4) symmetry
– PHYS REV D
(1997)
56,
2632
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.56.2632)
Yukawa textures in string unified models withSU(4)⊗O(4)symmetry
– Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
(1997)
56,
2632
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.56.2632)
Infra-red stable fixed points of Yukawa couplings in supersymmetric models
– Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
(1997)
407,
124
Infra-red fixed point structure characterising SUSY SU(5) symmetry breaking
– Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
(1997)
393,
349
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